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E. Ghouta Adventures: Russian center and hospitals bombed, 167 innocent civilians assume room temp.
 Russian E. Ghouta center for Syrian reconciliation comes under massive fire [ALMASDARNEWS] Sputnik has received reports that the Russian Center for Syrian Reconciliation, a peace monitoring and humanitarian organization jointly run by Russia and ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund.... , came under attack on Tuesday. No Russian casualties were reported from the incident, but Syrian civilians have been reported dead and injured. "Residential areas, hotels in Damascus, as well as the Russian Center for Syrian reconciliation came under massive shelling by illegal gangs operating in East Ghouta area today, causing significant infrastructural damage and casualties among the civilian population," the center said in a statement. "There are no casualties among the Russian military personnel," the statement added. The center was founded with the stated aim of speeding peace negotiations between the Syrian government of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... and opposition groups. All parties in the Syrian Civil War besides Islamist terrorist groups such as ISIS and the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front have consented to the center’s creation, including the US and its Syrian and Kurdish allies. The center is hosted at Khmeimim Air Base in Latakia Governorate ‐ around 200 miles north of Damascus. In December 2017, the base was targeted by a mortar attack which reportedly killed two Russian military personnel. A week later, in January 2018, the base was the target of an unsuccessful drone attack. Six Syria enclave hospitals bombed in two days [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Six hospitals have been struck over two days in the Syrian rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, putting three out of service and killing several people, the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... said Tuesday. "I am appalled and distressed by reports of the horrifying attacks against six hospitals in East Ghouta over the past 48 hours," said Panos Moumtzis, the UN's regional humanitarian coordinator for the Syria crisis. In addition to the six listed by the UN, another key hospital was hit and put out of service Tuesday, the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) said. Syrian regime attacks kill 167 civilians in E. Ghouta [AA.TR] At least 167 civilians have been killed in past two days by intensified Syrian regime attacks in the Damascus suburbs of Eastern Ghouta, said sources from the Syrian Civil Defense on Tuesday. Sources from the Civil Defense, also known as the White Helmets, told Anadolu Agency that regime attack on civilian areas in Eastern Ghouta had killed 88 people on Monday and 79 on Tuesday. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent on the ground, the regime forces and their supporters have been intensifying attacks on such areas as Duma, Haresta, Hammuriya, Misraba, Marj, Saqba, Kafr Batna, Ayn Tarma, Shifonia and Beit Sawa since Monday morning. The corpse count is expected to increase as attacks are still continuing in several areas. Eastern Ghouta falls within a network of de-escalation zones -- endorsed by ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , Russia and Iran -- in which acts of aggression are expressly prohibited. Nevertheless, the Syrian regime continues to target residential parts of the city, killing at least 539 people -- and injuring more than 2,000 others -- since Dec. 29 of last year. Posted by: Fred 2018-02-21 |
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